Cultural Region/Midwest
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Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break
$21.99 Add to cartOn December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth’s limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George Machine… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Lamaster, Kenneth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140406
- Language: English
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Logging in Wisconsin
$24.99 Add to cartLogging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked.
Wi
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Peterson, Diana L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467125326
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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Minneapolis: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartNewly updated with reflections on the city at the center of a global social uprising, this concise history of Minneapolis features stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 168134260X
- Language: English
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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cart“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”–Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings
In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibs- Author: Pappu, Sridhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557286
- Language: English
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Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters
$19.95 Add to cartHypothermia, lightning strikes, high winds, medical emergencies, miscalculations–the dangers are real in canoe country. Last Entry Point shares tales of tragedy and near-tragedy in the Boundary Water… [more below]
- Author: Friedrichs, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342863
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Illinois
$20.00 Read moreDid you know that Chicago was named for a wild onion? Or that the only president born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan? Or that the Ferris Wheel, processed cheese, the game of softball, the fly swatter, … [more below]
- Author: Banash, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: June 15 2013
- ISBN10: 878425993
- Language: English
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The Pocket Guide to Minnesota Place Names: The Stories Behind 1,200 Places in the North Star State
$18.95 Add to cartWithin our state’s borders you’ll find such exotic place names as Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great Sco… [more below]
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Fedo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514246
- Language: English
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas
$26.95 Read moreThrough much of the nineteenth century, steam-powered ships provided one of the most reliable and comfortable transportation options in the United States, becoming a critical partner in railroad expan… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 29 2015
- ISBN10: 047205175X
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Hiking the North Shore: 50 Fabulous Day Hikes in Minnesota’s Spectacular Lake Superior Region
$19.95 Add to cartGet into Minnesota’s most rugged and scenic wild places.
From Duluth to Grand Portage, discover magnificent trails that wind through eight state parks, the Superior National Forest, the Superior Hiking
- Series: There & Back Guides
- Author: Slade, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0979467535
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Illinois
$20.00 Add to cartIllinois–a flat and boring state with nothing but cornfields and crowded expressways, right? Balderdash Geology Underfoot in Illinois scratches the Prairie State’s surface to expose geologic diversi… [more below]
- Series: Yes, Geology Underfoot
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 087842346X
- Language: English
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Baseball 100
“Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great Cincinnati Reds teams–especially the ’75 Reds–deserve a place of prominence in our memory, same as t
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582557
- Language: English
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Murdered in Their Beds
$17.00 Add to cart“Something terrible has happened here…” Those were the words uttered by Ross Moore after discovering the bodies of his brother, his family and two houseguests in Villisca, Iowa in June 1912. That ho… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1892523787
- Language: English
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The Maniac in the Bushes: More Tales of Cleveland Woe
$13.95 Add to cart“Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining.” — The Plain Dealer
The second volume in Bellamy’s popular series includes 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including .
- Series: Ohio
- Author: Bellamy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: October 31 1997
- ISBN10: 1886228191
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of University of Michigan
$41.99 Add to cartFounded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. What started as a forty-acre campus with four buildi
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Chmura, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369823
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
$18.95 Add to cartA set of mutually beneficial relationships between southern slaveholders and Minnesotans kept the men and women whose labor generated the wealth enslaved.
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341352
- Language: English
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Minnesota Mysteries: A History of Unexplained Wonders, Eccentric Characters, Preposterous Claims & Baffling Occurrences in the Land of 10,0
$23.99 Add to cartAny Minnesotan worth his lutefisk has heard of the Kensington Runestone. But have you heard of Victor Setterlund? In 1949, he uncovered another runestone less than ten miles away. How about Newmann th… [more below]
- Author: Welter, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1626193622
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
